So I am excluding them from the hourly time machine setup as they change every minute, it hogs the disk space.

I’d love to have TWO schedules and setup so I can specify to backup my mail mbox daily rather than hourly.

Any clue?

]]>By: mohttp://osxdaily.com/2012/02/02/change-the-time-machine-backup-schedule/#comment-550215
Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:55:53 +0000http://osxdaily.com/?p=26740#comment-550215Time machine ‘editor’ seems to want to Disable TM to allow it to work…. so, this is acually not using TM at all and using a piece of freeware to manage the backup of all your important archives….!? Am I missing something, but this doesnt seem too robust…. and why Apple refuse to put in some basic functionality is ridiculous…MAC users will just end up like windows users with hacks and workarounds for everything……but I digress…

SO is TM funtionailty actually being replaced, or ‘edited’?

]]>By: Daizyhttp://osxdaily.com/2012/02/02/change-the-time-machine-backup-schedule/#comment-548038
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:25:28 +0000http://osxdaily.com/?p=26740#comment-548038There are an option available in Mac Operating system through which you can easily schedule your Mac backup. Time Machine is a great backup utility which helps to keep incremental backup. However, Stellar Drive ToolBox has an awesome backup utility called’ clone’. You can easily create backup in the form of image or clone.
]]>By: Machttp://osxdaily.com/2012/02/02/change-the-time-machine-backup-schedule/#comment-489124
Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:38:57 +0000http://osxdaily.com/?p=26740#comment-489124Does this same terminal trick (sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 14400) work in Mountain Lion?
]]>By: Peterhttp://osxdaily.com/2012/02/02/change-the-time-machine-backup-schedule/#comment-478479
Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:59:34 +0000http://osxdaily.com/?p=26740#comment-478479Time Machine editor seems to work well for longer backup intervals. Can be configured for hourly, daily, weekly, etc. Try it to see if it fits your needs. The latest version works with OS 10.8.

]]>By: Chidhttp://osxdaily.com/2012/02/02/change-the-time-machine-backup-schedule/#comment-474881
Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:38:12 +0000http://osxdaily.com/?p=26740#comment-474881Bob,
it looks like you could schedule backups to run only within certain hours… for instance, give it a 2 hour window that it would backup in, and then set it to backup once per 2 hours – then it should only run once per day.
Haven’t tested this out though.
]]>By: Bob Ghttp://osxdaily.com/2012/02/02/change-the-time-machine-backup-schedule/#comment-467293
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:24:11 +0000http://osxdaily.com/?p=26740#comment-467293Maybe I’ve got the wrong idea, but I downloaded this app hoping that I could schedule once-per-day or once-per-week backups of my Mac server, but it looks like the closest I can get is running a backup once every 12 hours.

The server only serves a single function, and doesn’t change much. Therefore I don’t really need to run backups twice a day.

Is there any way to configure to only run once a day, or at longer intervals?

On a related note, how do you tell Time Machine when it’s okay to overwrite previously-created backup files? If I do back everything up every 12 hours, then after a week I’ll have 14 backups, and I may end up filling my backup drive. I want to make sure free space is always being created by expiring the old backups for overwritability.

Thanks,
Bob

]]>By: sgt schultzhttp://osxdaily.com/2012/02/02/change-the-time-machine-backup-schedule/#comment-446513
Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:30:21 +0000http://osxdaily.com/?p=26740#comment-446513Doesn’t work in ML.
Options do not exist (eg. run at startup)
Does not ‘see’ my connected and mounted USB timemachine HDD.
Options are greyed out and not selectable…
]]>By: Thereshttp://osxdaily.com/2012/02/02/change-the-time-machine-backup-schedule/#comment-435820
Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:22:29 +0000http://osxdaily.com/?p=26740#comment-435820Hi
my problem is, that i’d like to have a backup every 30 minutes, so i’ve tried the option with the modification in the command line, but somehow it is not possible for me to enter my password when it is required… Does anyone know why that comes, or if there’s another way to get the updates more frequently (which is not the case with the presented TimeMachineScheduler)?
My mac is running on OSx version 10.7.5

]]>By: Philhttp://osxdaily.com/2012/02/02/change-the-time-machine-backup-schedule/#comment-355102
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:52:45 +0000http://osxdaily.com/?p=26740#comment-355102I think that you need to do a restart of the Mac to have this happen? — that is, the command-line version, not sure about the other one.
]]>By: Jenitahttp://osxdaily.com/2012/02/02/change-the-time-machine-backup-schedule/#comment-329349
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:34:58 +0000http://osxdaily.com/?p=26740#comment-329349Time Machine Scheduler disables the automatic backup function of Time Machine.
]]>By: myronhttp://osxdaily.com/2012/02/02/change-the-time-machine-backup-schedule/#comment-329236
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:20:38 +0000http://osxdaily.com/?p=26740#comment-329236Time Machine is a bit aggressive, and backs up all changes every hour that a drive is connected or within range, this is great for backup purposes but can be a nuisance when it hogs disk I/O and CPU cycles from other tasks.
Feature :
Set the interval from 1 to 12 hours.
• Run the backup manually or automatically also at startup, login or when the daemon has been loaded.
• Display the status of the daemon, of the backup volume and if the backup is currently running.
• Automount, an option to mount and unmount the backup volume automatically .
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